From: "John Beamish" 

Thanks, Geo.  I went to the netsecurity link but it doesn't have a date.
The security focus link has a bit more info (including a time frame
(June/July last year).

I don't know enough to know if it was a minor or major issue but you're
certainly right about the way Zone Labs handled it -- temporarily, at
least, attempting to be lamer than Real.

I'm at 4.5.538 so I presume that I've got the fix.

As an aside ... I know you (and quite a few others here) don't like Real. 
I like listening to the BBC which uses a Real stream so I'm unable to go
completely "un-Real" but I have noticed that there are some
alternatives to Real.  I haven't gone there, but just in case you might be
interested, I thought I'd pass that info along.

One final thing:  Rogers is saying that the issue lies with NASA (!).  I
offered them your services for a day (at the usual "exhorbitant but
fair and competitive" rate plus all expenses).  They were not amused.



"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:40777a55{at}w3.nls.net...
> > How does it compare to the free version of Zone Alarm?
>
> Dunno, after seeing the way the folks at zone alarm dealt with this
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/326371
>
> I decided I didn't want another vendor like Gordano (of ntmail fame) to
have
> to deal with so I never bothered playing with it much when moving away
from
> atguard. FWIW, I didn't see the above as much of an issue but the zone
alarm
> people handled it so poorly using it as a reason to buy the pro version
> instead and then issuing a really lame fix after the riots started that it
> just completely turned me off to their products.
>
> Here is a rather kind version of what took place
> http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/firewalls/a/aa071303.htm
>
> Geo.
>
>

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